Automatic cut-off.



PATBNTBD DEC. 25, 1906.

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Application filed January 25, 1906. Serial No. 297.806.

To @ZZ whomJ it may concern: Be it known that I, HENRY J. TRAE, a citizen of the United States/and a resident of Lonsport, in the county of Cass and `State ci' diana, have invented a new and lmrove'd Automatic Cut-OE, of which the folowing is a full, clear, and. exact description. The invention relates to water distribution; and its object is to provide a new and imroved automatic cut-oil designed for use in euse-leaders and the like and arranged to al'- low the dirty rain-water Jfrom the roof of a house to pass to a waste-pipe and then direct the following clear rain-water to a cistern or other reservoir. 1 G y The invention relates to novelfeatures and parts and combinations of the same, which will be more fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claim.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings,

forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Fgure l is a perspective view of the improvement as applied. Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional side elevation of the same, and Fig. 3 is a sectional plgn view of the same on the line33oiFig2.

The leader A on the side of a house is connected at its upper end with the usual gutter B, receiving the rain-water from the roof C ot' the house, and the lower end of the leader A forms an inlet l) for pipes E and F, of which the-pipe E' connects with a waste-pipe, while the ipe F leads to a cistern or other reservoir useclfor storing clear rain-water. Normally the inlet l is connected with the pipe E by a ate G, closing the connection between the i' et D and the pipe F. This gate G is hung at its sides on trunnions H and H', of which the' trunnionH is secured to the corresponding side ofthe gate. G and is journaled in the ipe Ff, and on the outer end of this trunnion is secured a weighted arm l for holding the gate G in the normal position shown in Fig. 2 and above mentioned. The gate G is provided at or near its middle with an aperture G', preferably covered by a screen Giraud through the said aperture G passes a portion of the dirty rain-water flowing at the beginning of a rainfall from the roof C into the utter B and from the latter by way of the eader A to the pipe E. Now this water after passing throughthe aperture G loWs into a receptacle J, connected at its upper end by links K with the sides of the gate G aL points to one sideof the trunnions H and H', and when this receptacle J is about filled with water the'nit overbalances the weighted arm l and swings the gate G into a reverse position to cut olf the inlet D from the pi e E and to connect the inlet D With the pi e Thus the following clear rain-water lows to the pipe F and to the cistern or other reservoir in which the rain-Water is to be stored.

The upper end oi the rece tacle J is preferably provided with a screen which, like the screen G2; previously mentioned, serves to prevent dir t and otherimpuri ti es from passing into the receptacle J to the pipe F. The bottom of the rece tacle J is provided with a drain-opening Jg, by which the water may gradually drain from the receptacle J into a chamber L, having an inclined bottom opening at the sides, at L', into the ipe F. Now it is evident that after the rainfa l the ilow of the Water into the cistern or reservoir ceases and the water gradually drains out of the rece tacle J, so that the weighted arm I nall)y overbalances the receptacle J and swings the gate G back to its normal os'ition, (shown in Fig. 2,) thereby resetting t e gate, so that on the next rainfall the dirty rain-water is again directed to the pipe E, and the gate G is only shifted after the receptacle J has lled with water and overbalances the weighted arm I, as above explained, so that the subsequent clear water asses by way of the pipe F to the cistern or ot er reservoir.

The automatic cut-oil shown and described is very simple and durable in construction, and as the water contained in the receptacle J drains out of the same after the rainfall is over the several parts are not liable to freeze up and become immovable in cold weather. It is understood that as long as water ilows down the leader A to the pi e F, as previously explained, the receptacle is ke t filled With water to overbalance Jthe weig ted arm I; but after the low ofwater ceases the receptacle J becomes lighter by the water draining out of the same, so that the weighted arm I finally overbalances the receptacle J and An automatic cut-ott for house-leaders,

comprising an inlet, a waste connection and a reservoir connection, a chamber between the waste connection and the reservoir connec- IIO .junction of theconnections an the inlet, anti normally closing lthe 'reservoir connection, said gate having an openmg through the cen- -ter thereof and being provided with trulli nions whereby to suppoit the gte, a Weight connected with one oi said trurmions for retaining the gate in its normal position, links connected-With the gate at one side of the trunnions, a rece tacle connected with the links and arrange below the opening in the gate to receive Water therethrough whereby to councette?? terbalance the Weight amil olen the gate, said 5v receptacle moving in the c arnherbetwoen ter therefrom. f

ln' testimony ww/hereof E 4have signed my naine to this speciication in the presence of' tvvo subscribing Witnesses.

''ENRY J". 'TR-AH? lfitncsses: v

FREDEMCK H. K'Lmscx, En'rn T. WATT. 

